Listeria monocytogenes is capable of infecting almost all animals. However, outbreaks of listeriosis are infrequent in birds. This report describes an outbreak of listeriosis in a small pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) breeder farm with more than 2,000 pheasants from Hubei province of the People's Republic of China. The affected flock consisted of adult and young birds. Approximately 300 young bi...

Aflatoxicosis is known to cause immunosuppression by inhibiting protein and nucleic acid synthesis, which could have predisposed the affected birds to bacterial infection. The 4 principal mycotoxins of concern in birds are aflatoxin B1, ochratoxin A, deoxynivalenol (vomitoxin) and the trichothecenes. The moulds producing these toxins can grow on various feeds, including grains, peanuts, breads,...

The protective effect of liquorice plant extract (LPE) on CCl4-induced hepatotoxicity in common carp was evaluated using fifty adult carps. The fish were cultured in a standard environment in terms of water flow rate, oxygen, pH, food and temperature. The fish were assigned into 5 groups (N = 10) as control, sham, and tests. The test groups were pre-treated for 3 h with various concentrations o...

Metabolism of L-[1-14C]methionine, DL-[1-14C]methionine and DL-[1-14C]2-hydroxy-4-methylthiobutanoic acid (DL-HMB) by broiler chicks which had been fasted overnight or given a methionine-deficient diet was compared with fed (control) birds. The excretion of 14C-labelled material, total 14CO2 exhaled, 14C incorporation into tissue proteins and the 14C-labelled material in perchloric-acid-soluble...

U NTIL recently, very little had been published on the myology of the cranes. Fisher and Goodman (1955) d escribed in detail the myology of the Whooping Crane (Grus americana) ; they also dissected one Little Brown Crane (G. c. canadensis) . I began a myological study of the Sandhill Crane (G. canadensis tabida) at the suggestion of Dr. L. H. Walkinshaw, whose interest in the biology and taxono...

experiments on it, the results of which I beg leave to present to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh. The parts submitted to these experiments were weighed almost immediately after they were taken from the body, in every instance in less than six hours, and generally within two. They were carefully dissected out (when dissection was necessary), and freed as much as possible from contig...

BACKGROUND The grey partridge is an important game bird in Europe that has declined considerably over the last decades. The production and release of farm-bred birds can be threatened by infectious agents. The objective of this study was to describe the outbreak, pathology, and blood and tissue biochemical responses in a flock of grey partridges naturally infected with Mycoplasma gallisepticum....

The aim of this study was to investigate beak surface temperature changes stress induced by fear resulting from tonic immobility using infrared thermography in laying hens. It also examined whether temperatures differed among brown and white lines. based on 89 hens both lines: 45 White Leghorn birds 44 Hy-Line birds. Beak measured with immediately before after testing. average obtained the uppe...